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could you widen the door, so I could get my head out, please?
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[Description by Uncle Ricky]

In 2008, for the second year in a row, WLS/Chicago brought back some of the music and personalities of the station's legendary MusicRadio days on Memorial Day (May 26) for THE BIG 89 REWIND.

This REELRADIO Independence Day Weekend REPLAY is commercial-free! Almost all commercial content, and much of the news, weather and sports has been removed from the original WLS .WAV files. This REELRADIO presentation has been re-processed. The program was recorded on a PC at the station, after some (unknown) automatic gain control. Sometimes you'll hear some PC beeps and clicks. There's also a low-level "buzz" audible at some points. (Noise reduction was used where appropriate.) A few songs were apparently played from low-rate online encodings, and a few songs are in hi-fi stereo.

For the REWIND line-up this year, Uncle Lar' and Little Tommy didn't want the morning shift!